Best Practice Case Study Achieving Cost Savings through an online self booking tool. In September 2008, Ian Wright was new to the role of corporate travel and was given the objective of transforming Oxford Instruments corporate travel program within the UK. Before moving to Egencia the company used a local travel agency offering just an offline service with no online solution. The organisation had no control or visibility over spend as well as control and monitoring capabilities being nonexistent. When Ian conducted some research on the company’s corporate travel he concluded that there was a lot of leakage within the organisation. Ian found that for every £1 that was spent on a business trip within the company, there was £2 leakage with non-approved suppliers.

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